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It is now possible to filter CLIO catalog results by country (and sometimes state or province) of publication

To see everything published in a particular country, leave the search blank, hit search, and then filter by the country:

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The Shared Collection Service, developed in partnership with Princeton University Library and The New York Public Library (NYPL), has launched! More than four million titles (comprising over seven million items) from New York Public Library and Princeton University Library are now available for request in CLIO. Columbia faculty, students, and staff can request direct delivery of these items to campus.

CLIO catalog holdings listed by top locations.

The new collections have a location of Recap Shared Collection (NYPL) and Recap Shared Collection (Princeton). Request them by clicking on the “Request: Offsite” link. Circulating titles can be borrowed for 16 weeks, with no renewal. Some titles can only be used on site in the libraries. They will be marked on the Offsite Request form Note as “In Library Use” or “Supervised Use.”

“In Library Use” indicates that the title can only be used onsite in the libraries.

Have a question or comment about CLIO? Click on “Feedback / Help” in the upper right corner of any CLIO screen to connect to Ask a Librarian, or to submit CLIO Suggestions & Feedback.

We’re excited to announce that the latest CLIO release incorporates a new top level data source, joining Catalog, Articles, Academic Commons, and Web site search.

Select GeoData to search the Columbia University Libraries spatial data collection as well as the collections of several other institutions, using geographical constraints.

GeoBlacklight, a new open source platform for Geospatial discovery will be rolled out in parallel with this change to CLIO, and Quicksearch search results for GeoBL will be slotted in beneath Catalog results in our “bento” display:

As is the case for some other data sources such as Academic Commons, search and faceted filtering will be provided from within CLIO; once an item is selected manipulation and viewing of specific items will be handled from within GeoBlacklight itself.

Another new feature in this release is the display of hit counts next to each data source:

These counts will displayed after a search is executed right up until a facet has been applied. Our hope is that the display of hit counts will make it easier to see how results are distributed among the different data sources as well as increase awareness of data sources whose display may be ‘below the fold’.

Have a question or comment about CLIO? Click on “Feedback / Help” in the upper right corner of any CLIO screen to connect to Ask a Librarian, or to submit CLIO Suggestions & Feedback.

Are you sometimes puzzled about which form of a name (Rachmaninov or Rachmaninoff?) to use when searching the catalog? CLIO will now find variant forms of names and subjects.

Libraries use standard forms of names and subjects in catalog records to ensure that, for example, all works by a given author will be cataloged under the same form of the name. The challenge for libraries has been to enable researchers who may use different forms of these names or subjects in their keyword searches to find the records that contain the standard forms.

The Library of Congress Authorities file includes references from alternative forms to the standard forms that have been chosen for use in records. CLIO now uses these to retrieve relevant records when alternative forms are used in keyword, author, or subject searches.

For example, library catalog records use the official Arabic name of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah. CLIO’s use of references from alternative forms will enable a patron’s subject search for the English forms PLO or Palestine Liberation Organization to include this standard form and retrieve all relevant books on this organization.

A search for Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich (the Wikipedia spelling of her name) will automatically retrieve records for Svetlana Aleksievich (the Library of Congress Authorities form). If you are not sure why a CLIO catalog search has retrieved a record, you can view the variants by selecting the “MARC view” displayand scrolling down:

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Columbia University’s collection of art works and cultural artifacts will soon be discoverable through CLIO.

Art Properties, based in the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, oversees the art collection owned by Columbia University. Comprised of more than 10,000 works of art in all media, displayed in buildings at each campus and held in storage, the art collection reflects all cultures and time periods. The collection also includes the public outdoor sculpture on campus. The mission of the University art collection is to support curricular integration, educational programs, and research and study purposes. As an extension of this teaching-and-learning mission, Art Properties also participates in loans to museum exhibitions worldwide.

The latest CLIO release includes a set of 65 MARC records created for catalog testing. Now a search for Andy Warhol retrieves not only books and videos about this artist, but a few sample records for photographs and prints owned by Columbia. To find art objects in CLIO, a search can be limited by format “Art Work (Original)” or location “Avery Art Properties.”

In addition to this test in CLIO, Avery staff and OSMC are collaborating on modeling Art Properties data as linked data, as part of a grant funded project led by Stanford University Libraries.

The latest CLIO release adds an “item feedback” form to help patrons give direct feedback to library staff about specific holdings. Please use this form to recommend that an item be:

retained on campus and not sent to Offsite (ReCAP)

treated as a rare or unique item (non-circulating)

reviewed for preservation (item in poor condition)

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Zotero is a free citation management program that helps you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources and enables the download, capture, and indexing of full text, web pages, and research notes. It also allows you to insert citations in Word documents in a wide variety of writing styles, such as APA, Chicago, etc.

The first CLIO release of the year, v8.1.7, was deployed this evening. This release includes a number of interrelated improvements to advanced search and fielded searches, for the Catalog and the Articles data sources, as well as a few additional small bugfixes.

We welcome questions, comments and suggestions for improving CLIO. Nearly all improvements and fixes begin as patron or librarian feedback. Please comment below, use the Suggestions & Feedback form under the “Help” menu in the upper right corner of CLIO, or Ask a Librarian.

Check the Release Notes in the tab above to see a complete list of CLIO releases.

Most books and bound periodicals may be returned to any Columbia University Library. Book bins are usually located near library entrances. Borrow Direct books may be returned to any library circulation desk.

These materials must be returned to the service desk or library from which they were borrowed:

Reserve materials

Media – including DVDs, CDs, videocassettes, and recordings

Microfilm and fiche

Musical Scores

Books and media obtained through ILL – these should be returned to the Interlibrary Loan Office in 307 Butler